If it is said that it is not easy to travel from the South China Sea to the Southeast Bank by sleeping in the open air, then going out of the East China Sea is almost like going to a different world for most of the maritime merchants in the Tang Dynasty.
After all, the East China Sea is too small.
The sea is all water. This is a famous saying in later generations. It seems to have no information, but in fact it does.
In this era without GPS navigation, the vast sea is more ferocious than the ferocious tsunami. Especially for the Han people who come from a farming civilization, this unreasonable and huge unknown is even more terrifying.
Therefore, to this day, the sea trade boom has begun, but Hangzhou's maritime merchants still instinctively avoid the route in the East China Sea, so there are not many merchant ships going to Japan.
However, that is the saying, but since it is called "not much", of course it means... there is.
Although there are very few. Wu Meiniang thought for a while and said, "It's not that there are no merchants who go to Japan, but the number is really small... In the past few years, those who go to the South China Sea are like crucian carp crossing the river, but there are only a few merchants who go to Japan.
"
After hesitating for a moment, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but said, "Young Master really wants to go to Japan?"
Li Sheng couldn't help but shrugged after hearing this, "Your Majesty sent me to Japan, and I can still tell him to get out. But Japan is not far away anyway..."
When Li Sheng said this, Wu Meiniang hurriedly said, "Young Master is not busy, I haven't finished talking about my identity yet. There are not many merchants going to Japan, but there are quite a few pirates!"
"How many pirates are there?"
Li Sheng was a little surprised, "There aren't many maritime merchants, so how can there be so many pirates?"
Although... there was a general Qi in later generations who once beat up pirates, and Li Sheng was very familiar with the origin of these pirates. He was simply a world-famous leader. But...
This situation has occurred so early, but Li Sheng can't help but think...
The reason why Japanese pirates were rampant in the Ming Dynasty was because there was a "sovereign state" there, just like the Shiwei and Xi tribes who followed Goguryeo. The border troubles suffered by the people on Hedong Road were actually diverse, not only from
Goguryeo.
But the source of evil is definitely Goguryeo.
If this political power did not exist, how could all the tribes dare to go to the Tang Dynasty to harvest grass and valleys?
And this principle is converted...
After thinking about this, Li Sheng secretly shook his head.
It seems that this matter cannot be settled, and I really have to follow it... But looking at Li Er's edict again, the content in it is not to directly recruit him to go to Japan, but to distribute it to the top officials of the imperial court in the town. So
A press release.
As for when exactly Li Er planned to deal with the Japanese issue, this... the edict didn't say anything. It was regarded as an order. It just asked local ministers to pay attention to collecting information about Japan.
To put it bluntly, this is still an edict after all, not an edict, nor is it a specific action plan for various people to study.
Li Sheng pondered for a moment, put the edict away, and raised his eyes to look at Wu Meiniang, "I guess... I won't go on an expedition, so don't worry about it."
Wu Meiniang felt reassured, then thought for a moment, suddenly picked up the food box at hand, looked at Li Sheng and said nervously, "Master, this is the pastry prepared by me, I don't know if it suits your taste..."
"Here." Li Sheng expressed his high appreciation and affirmation of Wu Meiniang's love without thinking, and then said, "You can put the food here, go help me get fifty kilograms of white paper, and two kilograms of charcoal."
"Young master has your destiny, how dare I disobey...?"
Wu Meiniang was observing Li Sheng's feelings towards her, but while lost in thought, she heard what Li Sheng seemed to say...
Fifty pounds of white paper, two pounds of charcoal...
Upon hearing this, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but moan secretly.
It's over, the young master has to start working in seclusion again, and I'm afraid I won't have a chance again...
Fifty pounds of blank paper. If I think about team building with the young master like this next time, I’m afraid I’ll have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse…
"...Okay, I will go and help the young master..."
Li Sheng looked far away, looking at Wu Meiniang's leaving back and smiled.
Let’s not talk about Japanese and non-Japanese.
But now that Li Er is at Dajian College, a large number of students will probably appear in the next few years. By then...
China needs to have more and larger overseas territory.
With such a huge supply of talent, it is estimated that few people will be able to master the internal combustion engine, but the improvement of the steam engine is obvious... the pace will be much faster.
In this case... Li Sheng naturally couldn't help but think of many famous industrial totems.
for example……
Giant ship cannon!
Li Sheng couldn't help but show a hint of fascination when he thought of these little treasures made of rivets and steel plates.
It doesn't matter whether it's a battleship or not, but...
Just because I want to go yachting doesn't mean I'm not interested in cruise ships...
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As Li Sheng returned to China, many tribes in the black land north of Hedong Road gradually received the news that Goguryeo had been destroyed by the Tang Dynasty.
Destroying a country is different from any "great victory", "great defeat", victory or defeat.
The meaning of annihilation is a series of great victories and a series of great defeats. The victorious side will continue to win until the victory is passed, and there will no longer be such a thing as Goguryeo in the world.
When it comes to Goguryeo, although the Xianbei people have lived here for hundreds of years and have absorbed countless nomadic tribes wandering around in Mobei, there are not many people who can understand the order of the black land and produce it.
is limited, so Goguryeo’s ability to expand is also limited. After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, there were still many nomadic tribes near this area...
If you think about it, you will know that for such a group of tribes, if they did not mix with the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo, it is conceivable that their strength was not bad.
But their strength is not bad compared to various small tribes that are often treated as wild monsters by big forces. For them...
An existence like Goguryeo is still out of reach. Although they are unwilling to surrender, they would never dare to mess with Goguryeo.
However, Goguryeo, which was so arrogant and stood tall in the world for hundreds of years, finally came to an end.
As Li Sheng fled early, Silla and Baekje were quickly captured.
Of course, the Tang Dynasty did not need a large group of generals to go out to control a state - what is it doing? So of course most of them were recalled, and among the commanding team, Zhang Liang took the initiative to ask for help, so he finally stayed in Goguryeo
.
Following Li Xiaogong, Changsun Wuji returned to the court with his precious girl Changle Banshi, and had to transport a large number of Xianbei households - this would undoubtedly require a large number of imperial troops, otherwise what would happen if they were disobedient and caused trouble along the way?
The Forbidden Army who officially followed Li Xiaogong and others back to the DPRK, plus the part that handled the transfer of Xianbei people, more than half of the 300,000 Forbidden Army were gone at once...
